Many hope it will answer a question that has long divided Americans and the country’s understanding of its history: Who exactly was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb?

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit ... Leslie Groves and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize Oppenheimer's name from Christopher ...

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

Jack Quaid recalls the unique compliment he got from director Christopher Nolan for one Oppenheimer scene in which he plays a ...

Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb," in the 2023 film Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

PRINCETON, N.J. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb who was later branded a security risk, died Saturday night of cancer. He was 62. Oppenheimer who was director of the Los ...

He was a man of contradictions: a brilliant physicist, fuelled by self-loathing; a student of philosophy and mysticism, who longed to be an all-American hero. He was responsible for building the most ...

follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The film shows the ...

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...

Nolan has previously spoken about the weighty task of directing J. Robert ... as the "father of the atomic bomb." He called the role "a huge responsibility" since Oppenheimer "was complicated ...

(The 2006 book The Bomb in the Basement by Michael Karpin ... s interest in Israel was more than a passing fancy. Perhaps J. Robert Oppenheimer was not as estranged from his people as thought.

The dramatic biographical film is based on the life and legacy of the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, was released in 2023.